There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
Full of restraint, from both its director and leads, this is a quiet gem with the power to move.
In Andrew Haigh’s intelligent and moving drama, a retired husband and wife must rethink their whole lives together following the fallout from old news.
Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling paint an intense, slow-burning picture of marriage.
Dense with insight and caution on how to live a long life with love.
Courtenay and Rampling give exemplary performances.
Courtenay and Rampling are two fine actors but here their rather stilted performances have the awkward air of improvisational role plays while the supporting characters feel like helpful expositional devices rather than real people.
Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling are at the top of their game in this compelling drama of lost love and missed opportunity.
Director Andrew Haigh on his new drama 45 Years.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday October 2, 2015, until Thursday October 8, 2015. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/